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Welcome Back, Kotter Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

22 Episodes 1975 - 1976

Episode 1

The Great Debate

Tue, Sep 9, 197530 mins

Kotter arranges a debate between the Sweathogs and the debate team.

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Episode 2

Basket Case

Tue, Sep 16, 197530 mins

Kotter is pressured to give Boom-Boom a passing grade on his exam, which he fails, so that he can continue to play on the basketball team.

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Episode 3

Welcome Back (Pilot)

Tue, Sep 23, 197530 mins

Gabriel Kotter is a teacher in Brooklyn, New York who ends up teaching at his old alma mater: Buchanan High School. He has been assigned to teach the remedial students, better known as the Sweathogs, a group to which he used to belong.

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Episode 4

Whodunit?

Tue, Sep 30, 197530 mins

Rosalie fakes shes pregnant in order to make the sweathogs confess she did not fool around with them.

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Episode 5

The Election

Tue, Oct 7, 197530 mins

Vinnie runs for class president.

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Episode 6

No More Mr. Nice Guy

Tue, Oct 14, 197530 mins

Mr. Woodman and Mr. Kotter reverse roles. Mr. Woodman starts being nice to the sweathogs, and Mr. Kotter starts getting mean to them.

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Episode 7

Classroom Marriage

Tue, Oct 21, 197530 mins

Freddie and Vernajean wants to quit school to get married. So Mr. Kotter has them act out a marriage in class.

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Episode 8

One of Our Sweathogs Is Missing

Tue, Oct 28, 197530 mins

Epstein loses a fight to Todd Ludlow, he feels so ashamed about it he runs away.

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Episode 9

Mr. Kotter, Teacher

Tue, Nov 4, 197530 mins

Mr. Kotter is suspended because Mr. Woodman doesn't like his teaching methods.

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Episode 10

The Reunion

Tue, Nov 18, 197530 mins

Mr. Kotter dreads an old successful classmate coming to dinner.

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Episode 11

Barbarino's Girl

Tue, Nov 25, 197530 mins

Mr. Kotter talks Judy into tutoring Barbarino. The two eventually become friends, but Barbarino doesn't want the other Sweathogs to know about it.

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Episode 12

California Dreamin'

Tue, Dec 2, 197530 mins

A new girl sweathog arrives and has all the boy sweathogs in heat.

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Episode 13

Arrividerci, Arnold

Tue, Dec 16, 197530 mins

When it is announced that Horshack has graduated out of the Sweathogs and into regular classes, Kotter instructs the remaining Sweathogs to shun him so that he can meet people in his new classes.

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Episode 14

The Longest Weekend

Tue, Jan 6, 197630 mins

Kotter begins to behave erratically when he learns that Julie will be going on a weekend ski trip, marking the first time that they've been separated since their marriage.

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Episode 15

The Sit-In

Tue, Jan 13, 197630 mins

Instead of the planned food fight, Kotter convinces the Sweathogs to stage an all-night classroom sit-in to protest the school's serving of liver for lunch.

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Episode 16

Follow the Leader: Part 1

Tue, Jan 20, 197630 mins

Sweathogs tapping at the window for breakfast, coupled with the love, attention and time Mr. Kotter lavishes upon his students finally drive the neglected Julie to leave Gabe. Meanwhile, Kotter's classroom lesson on democracy goes awry when the Sweathogs vote Barbarino out and Freddie in as their new leader, provoking the rejected Vinnie to drop out of school.

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Episode 17

Follow the Leader: Part 2

Thu, Jan 22, 197630 mins

Mr. Kotter seeks to reconcile with Julie, Freddie's leadership of the Sweathogs evokes the adage of absolute power corrupting absolutely and Barbarino weighs humility versus being a high school dropout and door-to-door Tidy-Didy cleanser salesman.

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Episode 18

Dr. Epstein, I Presume

Thu, Jan 29, 197630 mins

Epstein goes to the guidance counselor to talk about being a veterinarian. She says he is not smart enough and he should look for a career in manual labor. So he gives his animals Kotter because he thinks he can't take care of them anymore.

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Episode 19

One Flu Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Thu, Feb 5, 197630 mins

A flu epidemic requires several advanced students to join Kotter's class, where they quickly outshine his struggling students. Kotter boosts the battered self-confidence of his Sweathogs by demonstrating that not all smarts are book smarts.

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Episode 20

The Telethon

Thu, Feb 12, 197630 mins

Arnold and Mr. Kotter persuade the Sweathogs to hold a telethon for much needed school supplies.

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Episode 21

Kotter Makes Good

Thu, Feb 19, 197630 mins

Mr. Woodman gleefully informs Kotter that there are no records of his having completed his senior exams, so Kotter has to take the tests alongside his Sweathogs, who commit to tutoring him.

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Episode 22

Father Vinnie

Thu, Feb 26, 197630 mins

Vinnie's 87 year old grandmother is in the hospital possibly on her death bed. When his grandmother dies he decides he must honor her death bed request of him and become a priest. He now walks the hallways of Buchanan telling everyone he loves them and organizing prayer meetings. But what is he to do when faced with an after school date with Bambi? Kotter and the rest of the guys must convince Vinnie that he just isn't cut out to be a priest.

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